The online shopping website Amazon.com is popular for discounted items, but it’s also a marketplace for knockoffs.

View the Video KUSA – Many turned to online shopping this holiday season for a convenient way to score some deals. Not everyone got what they bargained for, thanks to the work of cybercriminals. “With a depressed economy and fears of the ‘fiscal cliff’ looming, shoppers went online with a vengeance this year looking for…

Record Online Shopping Yields Record Levels of Fraud SANTA MONICA, Calif. – (Dec. 31, 2012) – Noting how consumers have embraced online shopping this holiday season, the Consumer Fraud Center said holiday shoppers went off a “shopping cliff” in terms of being ripped off by counterfeit and fake goods sold by cybercriminals this year in…

In advance of the biggest online shopping day of the year, the Consumer Fraud Center issued its annual Cyber Monday Shopping Alert to warn consumers of the growing use by cyber criminals of legitimate websites such as Amazon Marketplace to sell illegal or counterfeit goods.